Dokdo ("독도" in Korean)‚ also called the Dokdo island‚ is a group of islands in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). These islands are collectively called Dokdo. The name means a "rock island." Dokdo has been a Korean territory throughout all known history except during the Japanese occupation of Korea between 1905 and 1945. Dokdo is also called Liancourt Rocks after the French whaling ship‚ Le Liancourt‚ which rediscovered Dokdo on January 27‚ 1849. The Japanese name for Dokdo used to be Matsushima (松島)
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Guarded from the outside world‚ North Koreans have not revolted because they are scared of being watched while trying to escape from the harsh conditions. Kim Jong-Un is so guarded against the people leaving because he wants to prevent them from seeing the outside world. North Koreans do not truly know what the outside world really is but know they are tired of how they are being treated: “They also say that‚ even when North Koreans watch films smuggled from China that show gleaming skyscrapers‚
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K-pop? South Korean Popular Music‚ the Culture Industry‚ and National Identity John Lie* In the early 2010’s‚ the expansion of South Korean popular culture around the world is led by popular music‚ usually known as Kpop. In this paper I seek to answer two questions. First‚ what are the sources of its success beyond the South Korean national border? Secondly‚ what does it say about contemporary South Korean society and culture? Key Words: K-pop‚ Korean Wave‚ Hallyu‚ South Korean Popular Culture
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Korean Traditional House: Grass Roofed House In Korea there was a traditional house called ‘Choga house’ which ‘Choga’ means grass roof and it had a lot of benefits for poor people. It is made of red clay so it was cool in summer and warm in winter. Also it was really easy and cheap to get those materials so many poor people used to make Choga house. The roof was made of grass so it was easy to get it‚ and it was good in both summer and winter because it protected hotness in summer and
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little over 25‚000 and a tenth of a percent of that being Korean‚ there are no other Korean adoptees in the city. Even though I hardly notice it every day being adopted has a greater effect on my life than I realize. When people notice I have been adopted‚ they ask about my family‚ my ethnicity‚ and other similar questions. As a quiet and shy person‚ it is satisfying when I can talk
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Introduction to Sijo Korean literature is becoming popular in foreign lands. The globalization of Korean literature is good news to Korean poets and writers. Literature certainly has an important role to play in its portrayal of the relations between society and individual people‚ and it has a particularly vital social function in developing or underdeveloped countries. Korea has a proud and long-established literary tradition‚ but while it has produced many fine classical and contemporary works
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Ahn’s “Home Run: My Journey Back to Korean Food” is a touching narrative about how Ahn became reconnect to his native roots again through food. As he tells his story he states‚ “During my teenage years‚ after we moved to Los Angeles‚ I chose to downplay my ethnic roots” (24). I feel a lot of kids with a different ethnicity choose to do this at some point in their lives. I have witnessed it first hand with my brother that Ahn is not alone in this act. Not only have I noticed it within him‚ I‚ too
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Korean culture does not have the same concrete definition of mental illness as the one used in American culture. They believe the etiology of mental disorders are of spiritual origin: "crazy or divine diseases" and not an effect of chemical or other bodily
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(2010). The scary screen: Media anxiety in the ring. Surrey‚ England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. Retrieved from http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=oxlmJImefGYC&pg=PR3&dq=ringu patriarchal&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3 Choi‚ J. (2010). The south korean film renaissance: Local hitmakers‚ global provocateurs. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. Retrieved from http://books.google.com.sg/books?id=aN2swhJnTRoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Park‚ Y. (2005‚ January 28). Gender dimensions of
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Pretty quickly! Another way to drink Soju is as a Korean Bomb. Where a shot of Soju is added to a beer. 4. Korean age is calculated differently than international age. The way the majority of the world measures age seems common sense to most people. We are born without a year‚ and then every year on our birthday we get one year older. Simple right? The Korean system isn’t so easy. Koreans are all two years older than they really are. When Koreans are born they are instantly one. In Korea‚ a baby
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